Hacker News with Generative AI: Web Design

Ask HN: Will HN ever have a dark mode? (ycombinator.com)
It's one of those sites that I frequently visit and get a glaring screen in my face when switching tabs. Just wanted to know if this feature is ever going to be available. I mean it's 2025!
User Experience, Web Design, Hacker News
13 points by anthropodie 5 days ago | 27 comments
Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012) (stevehanov.ca)
A/B testing is used far too often, for something that performs so badly. It is defective by design: Segment users into two groups. Show the A group the old, tried and true stuff. Show the B group the new whiz-bang design with the bigger buttons and slightly different copy. After a while, take a look at the stats and figure out which group presses the button more often. Sounds good, right? The problem is staring you in the face.
A/B Testing, Web Design, User Experience
375 points by Kerrick 8 days ago | 173 comments
Show HN: Instantly Generate Example Pages (exampl.page)
Instantly generate example pages. Just visit anything.exampl.page
Web Development, Tools, Productivity, Web Design
8 points by resonious 11 days ago | 6 comments
Triptych Proposals (alexanderpetros.com)
Three small proposals for putting the "hyper" back in hypertext.
Web Design, Hypertext, User Interfaces
250 points by felipemesquita 11 days ago | 79 comments
Stimulation Clicker (neal.fun)
Stimulation, Interactive, Games, Web Design
3082 points by meetpateltech 12 days ago | 588 comments
Silk – Interactive Generative Art (2011) (weavesilk.com)
To save, right click the thumbnail and choose Save Image As....
Generative Art, Interactive Art, Art, Web Design, Software
85 points by bluemars 29 days ago | 26 comments
You need 4 colors (iamsajid.com)
You need 4 colors
Design, Color Theory, Web Design, Aesthetics
180 points by s4i 38 days ago | 133 comments
Square Zero: hide silly messages in decorative borders (danwilkerson.com)
I decided to include an Easter Egg in our New Years greeting this year1. If you managed to decipher it, you'd be treated to a retro mini-game based on the card. Can you spot it?
Easter Eggs, Design, Web Design, Hidden Messages
41 points by danwilkerson 45 days ago | 13 comments
A Collection of Kaleidoscope Schemes, Sourced from the WayBack Machine. (hryjksn.com)
A collection of Kaleidoscope Schemes, sourced from the WayBack Machine.
Web Design, Programming, Color Schemes, Web Archives
29 points by bookofjoe 52 days ago | 10 comments
My new POWER Indigo 2 (thejpster.org.uk)
On Mastodon, I recently came across a post by Kestral, with a link to their website:
Computer Hardware, Social Media, Web Design
89 points by ingve 56 days ago | 40 comments
Using date-based CSS to make old web pages *look* old (2023) (shkspr.mobi)
How do you know you're looking at an old website? You may have found a page which has lots of interesting information, but how can you tell it's a modern and relevant result?
Web Design, CSS, User Experience, Retro Design, Web Development
37 points by OuterVale 57 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring? (ycombinator.com)
I noticed the black bar is up today and I don't see any death posts. Is there an easy way to see who this is honoring? It would be nice to have a feature that on hover said who it was or something of the like.
Web Design, User Interface, Social Media, Community Features
65 points by alstonite 63 days ago | 25 comments
Cool HTML design without JavaScript (waka.moe)
A lot of cool designs can be created with just HTML and CSS.
HTML, CSS, Web Design
8 points by popcalc 64 days ago | 1 comments
JGS ASCII ART gallery (2001) (oldcompcz.github.io)
Please, enjoy my doodles... Be sure to bookmark this page and check back to see what I've made recently. I usually update this site with new ASCII Art around the beginning of the month. As always, I welcome your responses and feedback... Please keep in mind that even though I have posted my ASCII art on this website, the pictures follow internet copyright laws and still remain my property.
ASCII Art, Art, Retro Computing, Web Design
42 points by kristopolous 67 days ago | 4 comments
We Asked the Creator of 'Rotating Sandwiches': Why? (2023) (digg.com)
If you feel like the internet is a lot less fun these days, you're not alone. For many of us, the online experience now consists of algorithm-driven sameness, punctuated by dangerous misinformation and the occasional horrifying image. But amidst all that, there's still Rotating Sandwiches — one of the few remaining sites on the internet that exist purely for fun, silliness or simply no reason at all.
Internet Culture, Humor, Web Design, Creative Projects
3 points by cainxinth 68 days ago | 0 comments
Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files? (hyperknot.com)
MapHub's UI has remained largely consistent since I launched it eight years ago, with a prominent "Save" button visible in the top-right corner of the map. It turns orange when a save is needed.
User Experience, Web Design, Software
56 points by gelstudios 83 days ago | 48 comments
So what is "so '90s" in Web design? (2004) (webmasterworld.com)
So what is "so '90s" in Web design?
Web Design, Trends, Nostalgia, Web Development
5 points by realjame 84 days ago | 0 comments
Don't use "click here" for link text (dont-click-here.com)
Never link the words “click here”. Or “here” or “this”.
Web Design, User Experience, Best Practices
114 points by jonathanberger 87 days ago | 61 comments
Ask HN: Crappy website design seems more trustworthy? (ycombinator.com)
I visited my bank's website and it hit me. For some reason, their crappy website design appears as more trustworthy than other, sleeker designs of modern banks. Why is that?
Web Design, User Experience, Trust, Psychology, Banking
23 points by burglins 89 days ago | 23 comments
Canvases versus Documents (kaiwenwang.com)
Much web design has reflected that of paper documents: finite with clearly defined edges. But by no means is the canvas style recent, as we can see in Space Jam.
Web Design, User Interfaces, Digital Design
86 points by todsacerdoti 104 days ago | 19 comments
I Stayed (zeldman.com)
Personal Experiences, Web Design
210 points by speckx 105 days ago | 169 comments
Making the Web Boring Again (washbear.neocities.org)
It's hard to imagine now, but in the 2000s web browsers were quite boring and didn't get updated very often.
Web Design, Nostalgia, History
93 points by todsacerdoti 105 days ago | 55 comments
I Built "The Monospace Web" (wickstrom.tech)
Recently, I published The Monospace Web, a minimalist design exploration. It all started with this innocent post, yearning for a simpler web. Perhaps too typewriter-nostalgic, but it was an interesting starting point. After some hacking and sharing early screenshots, @noteed asked for grid alignment, and down the rabbit hole I went.
Web Design, Minimalism, Design Exploration
13 points by todsacerdoti 114 days ago | 11 comments
A note on estimated reading times (baldurbjarnason.com)
People have been writing a bit about “estimated reading time”, the feature where a link to something is accompanied by an estimate of how long it will take you to read it.
Web Design, User Experience, Content Consumption
14 points by saeedesmaili 118 days ago | 7 comments
Open Props – Supercharged CSS Variables (open-props.style)
Supercharged CSS variables, expertly crafted web design tokens that create consistent components, useful in any framework.
CSS, Web Design, Development Tools
64 points by homarp 131 days ago | 11 comments
Minimal Web (mnmlist.com)
A website with the main purpose of having people read content would best serve its readers with almost nothing else but what’s needed for the reading experience.
Web Design, User Experience, Minimalism
89 points by zacharykai 132 days ago | 55 comments
Every webpage deserves to be a place (interconnected.org)
If you’ve visited my actual website, rather than reading by email or whatever, such as reading this very post, you may notice somebody else’s cursor pass by as you’re reading.
Web Design, User Experience, Online Communities
164 points by herbertl 134 days ago | 45 comments
Pixels, Clicks and Emotional Tricks (bearblog.dev)
Web Design, Marketing, User Experience
8 points by dohguy 139 days ago | 1 comments
Web Design Museum (webdesignmuseum.org)
Web Design, History, Museums
228 points by helloplanets 142 days ago | 41 comments
Docusaurus – Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content (docusaurus.io)
Website Development, Open Source, Web Design
175 points by yamrzou 142 days ago | 47 comments